Posts Tagged ‘Business’

  • Build A Relationship To Invest in A Company
    Posted by on May 23rd, 2013 at 8:09 am, Comments: 0

    Investing in a startup takes a lot of twists and turns.  It’s a massive learning process.  Getting down the learning curve can be extremely expensive. [...]

  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on May 14th, 2013 at 7:03 am, Comments: 0

    How a Bitcoin transaction actually works. Hiring sales people. How big insurance paid a small business group big money to fight a premium tax. The [...]

  • Bloomberg Snooping on Its Customers-Try YCharts Instead
    Posted by on May 10th, 2013 at 9:40 am, Comments: 0

    Bloomberg got caught with it’s hand in the cookie jar.  On Glenn Reynold’s Instapundit blog, this story caught my eye.  Goldman Sachs ($GS) execs were [...]

  • Follow The Hot Money
    Posted by on May 10th, 2013 at 7:00 am, Comments: 0

    One of the ways to make money in the market is momentum trade.  Plenty of people try it.  Richard Driehaus built an empire momentum trading. [...]

  • Why People Are Running From Detroit
    Posted by on May 8th, 2013 at 11:54 am, Comments: 0

    Detroit has a lot of problems.  No secret there.  There are lots of suggestions as to how to fix those problems. Reasonable people might disagree [...]

  • Entrepreneurial Hammers in Search of Nails
    Posted by on May 2nd, 2013 at 7:51 am, Comments: 0

    Lots of startup activity here in the midwest.  Pretty cool.  It’s nice to see it happen because a few scant years ago there wasn’t much [...]

  • HFT and Exploiting a Loophole
    Posted by on May 1st, 2013 at 8:33 am, Comments: 0

    The WSJ had an article on how HFT traders exploit a loop hole at the $CME.  Some shrug it off as if it’s no big [...]

  • Angel Investor Question-Would You Invest?
    Posted by on April 27th, 2013 at 10:25 am, Comments: 0

    Here is an investment question for you.  You have money to invest and are approached by a person with a cutting edge technology:  3D printing. [...]

  • 6 Ways to Built the Entrepreneurial Community and 4 Easy Ways to Plug In
    Posted by on April 25th, 2013 at 10:05 am, Comments: 0

    Last night, I was lucky to get the chance to speak about the local entrepreneurship scene to the Chicago Booth Marketing Roundtable.  I did a [...]

  • Startup In Illinois or Texas? What Should A Startup Consider?
    Posted by on April 23rd, 2013 at 8:29 am, Comments: 0

    In a fight to get more jobs for Texas, governor Rick Perry came to Illinois to talk about the business climate in Texas.  Mayor Rahm [...]

  • The Market is Rigged
    Posted by on April 10th, 2013 at 11:22 am, Comments: 0

    The Fed released minutes of their meeting early “because the U.S. central bank accidentally sent the report to congressional aides and trade organizations.”.  Remember, it’s [...]

  • New Pitching Idea for Startups
    Posted by on April 9th, 2013 at 11:16 am, Comments: 0

    Monday evening I had the good fortune to be invited to speak at the local Wharton Alumni Club chapter on the startup scene in the [...]

  • Is An Acquisition a Failure?
    Posted by on April 3rd, 2013 at 8:32 am, Comments: 0

    This post is intriguing because a person that created a company considers the acquisition of his company a failure.   Their company was unique, because [...]

  • The Tablet Can Take Your Order
    Posted by on March 28th, 2013 at 8:05 am, Comments: 0

    Obamacare is pushing up the cost to hire new employees, and increases the cost to retain older employees. Higher minimum wage laws also increase the [...]

  • The Wisdom of Crowds
    Posted by on March 27th, 2013 at 6:29 am, Comments: 0

    There is a misnomer in the conversations that are taking place right now among people.  They are misapplying the “wisdom of crowds” theory from Hayek. [...]

  • How Do You Create A Corporate Culture?
    Posted by on March 24th, 2013 at 9:03 am, Comments: 0

    Corporate culture is one of those touchy feely things that a lot of people talk about, but few really know anything about.  There is the [...]

  • Fauxpreneurs What Should We Do With Them?
    Posted by on March 21st, 2013 at 12:05 pm, Comments: 0

    Yesterday Phil Beauregard wrote an article in PandoDaily about getting crappy people out of your ecosystem.  Nice.   Points and Figures has written about this [...]

  • Focus Focus Focus
    Posted by on March 19th, 2013 at 8:21 am, Comments: 0

    What can kill your business?  Lack of focus.  I have seen it time and time again.  Everyone chases the next shiny object in hopes that [...]